Comments on: A Blue Spring is coming to Shanghai http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/03/08/3154 Of China changing the World Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Julen Madariaga http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/03/08/3154/comment-page-1#comment-21197 Julen Madariaga Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:56 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/?p=3154#comment-21197 Cool, hope it's true. I keep reading predictions that most visitors will be Chinese. While this is surely correct, I think the number of foreigners in absolute terms will also be quite higher than the Olympics, and also a different kind of visitors (ie. people more interested in the culture and who do more stuff rather than stay in Beijing glued to a TV set) I am a declared pro-EXPO, and from now on I will cheer for it at every occasion. Not least of all because it is my duty as an adopted Shanghainese... Cool, hope it’s true. I keep reading predictions that most visitors will be Chinese. While this is surely correct, I think the number of foreigners in absolute terms will also be quite higher than the Olympics, and also a different kind of visitors (ie. people more interested in the culture and who do more stuff rather than stay in Beijing glued to a TV set)

I am a declared pro-EXPO, and from now on I will cheer for it at every occasion. Not least of all because it is my duty as an adopted Shanghainese…

]]> By: Micah Sittig http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/03/08/3154/comment-page-1#comment-21194 Micah Sittig Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:49 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/?p=3154#comment-21194 Also, there has been a promise not to lock down tourist visas for the Expo, which is a one-up on the Olympics. Also, there has been a promise not to lock down tourist visas for the Expo, which is a one-up on the Olympics.

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